Sources: Meghan Markle spotted in Chicago weeks before royal wedding

Meghan Markle arrives to meet participants at the United Kingdom team trials for the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 at the University of Bath Sports Training Village in Bath, England, on April 6, 2018

Meghan Markle arrives to meet participants at the United Kingdom team trials for the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 at the University of Bath Sports Training Village in Bath, England, on April 6, 2018 (Ben Stansal / AFP/Getty Images)

Is Meghan Markle in or around Chicago right now? Looks like it. There’s this photo that apparently shows the Northwestern student-turned-actress-turned-royal-fiancee sporting what looks like a Sox cap landing at O'Hare International Airport, according to a source who provided it to the Tribune. Markle landed at the airport at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, according to a second source, who also said that she will be leaving town early Sunday evening.

Chicago police provided physical security for her but not an actual escort, the source said. The U.S. State Department likely would have taken her in agency vehicles to her hotel or wherever she was staying, the source added.

The State Department responded by email: “The State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security provides security details to certain foreign dignitaries and official guests while they are in the United States. The security we provide to these visiting dignitaries and guests is based on the level of threat they face in the United States. Extensive planning, analysis, and coordination with local, state, and other federal law enforcement is critical to ensuring that appropriate security measures are in place.We do not provide specific information about protective details.”

Calls to the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., were not returned.

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A source said this was Meghan Markle at O'Hare International Airport on April 12, 2018, in Chicago.

A source said this was Meghan Markle at O'Hare International Airport on April 12, 2018, in Chicago. (Handout)

Before her engagement last year to Prince Harry, son of the Prince of Wales and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, Markle was perhaps best known as an American actress who starred most recently as Rachel Zane on the USA Network television show, “Suits.” She was a student at Northwestern University, where she graduated in 2003.

Spokespeople for Northwestern said they were unaware of any plans for her to be on campus.

Markle is set to wed Prince Harry on May 19 in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.

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